The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-27
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thoughts II am afraid that you won't see
your brother tomorrow morning But III
reconnoiter, as can do so without torturing
him, he said, looking anxiously at the help
less man; She's got about his share of pain,
reckon, and the first thing is to get BIN
easier" 1t was the longest speech he had
made to her; it was the first time lie had
fairly looked her in tho face. His shy rest
lessness had suddenly given way to dogged
resignation, less abstracted, but scarcely more
fattering to his entertainers. Lifting his
companion gently in his arms, as il he had
been a child, he reascended the staircase,
Mrs. Scott and the hastily summoned Molly
following with overiowing solicitude. As
soon as they were alone in the parlor Mrs
Hale turned to her sister: "Only that our
guests seemed to be as anxious to go now as you
were to pack them Off l should have been
shocked at your inhospitality What has
come over you, Kat.s These are the very
people you have reproached me so often with
not being civil enough to-"
"But who are theyg'
"How do knowg There is your brothers
letter"
She usually spoke of her husband as "John"
This slight shifting of relationship and re-
sponsibility to the feminine mind was signifi-
cant. Kate was little frightened and re-
nlorseful
u only meant you don't even know their
namesn
"That wasn't necessary for giving thsm
bed and bandsgas Do you suppose the good
Samaritan ever asked tho wounded Jews
name, and that the Levite did not excuse
himself because the thieves had taken the
poor mans card casel Do the directions, I'm
c,ise of accident in your ambulance rules,
read: First lay the sufferer ON his back and
inquire his name and family connectionsf
Besides, you can call one Ned and the other
George if you like"
"Oh, you know what mean," said Kate,
irrelevantly. (which is Georgel"
"George is the wounded man." said Mrs.
Hale; mot the one who talked 10 you moro
than he did to any one else. suppose tho
poor man was frightened and read dismissal
in your eyes"
"I wish John were here"
II don't think we have anything to fear in
bis absence from men whose only wish is to
get away from us. If it is question Of pro-
rriety, my dear Kate, surely there is the
presence of mother to prevent any scandal
although really her own conduct with the
wounded one is not above suspicion" she
added, with that novel mischievousness that
seemed a return of her lost girlhood. "We
must try to do the best we can with them and
for them,n she said decidedly, "and mean
time I'll see if can't arrange Johns room
for them.n
"John's rooml'
"Oh, mother is perfectly satisfied indeed,
suggested it. It's larger and viii hold two
beds, for Ned, the friend, must attend to
him at night And, Kate, don't you think,
if you're not going out again, you might
change your costumel 1t does very well
while we are alone
SWELL" said Kate Indignantly, 'as am
not going into his ROOM
"rm not so sure nbout that, IL We csa's get
a regular doctor. But ho b very Festlsss,
and wanders all ever the houo Mo timid
and apologetic spaniel"
"Who!"
"Why Ned But must go and look after
the patient. 1 suppose they've got him safe
| in his bed again." and with . nod 10 her sis
ter she tl'ipped up stairs.
Uncomfortable and embarrassed, she knew
not why, Kate sought her mother. Bat that
| good lady was already in attendance on ths
patient, and Kate hurried past that baleful
center of attraction with feeling OF loneli-
ness and strangeness she had never expe-
rienced before. Entering her own room she
went to the window--that first and last ref
uge of the troubled mind-and gazed out
| Turning her eyes in tho direction Of her
mornings walk, she started back with a sense
of being dazzled. She rubbed first her eyes
and then the ra;n-dimmed pane 1t was no
illusionl The whole landscape, so familiar to
her, was one vast field of dead, colorless
white Trees, rocks, oven distance itself, had
vanished in those few hours. An even.
shadowless, motionless white sea filed tho
horizon. On either side II vast wall Of snow
seemed to shut out the world like q shroud.
Only the green plateau before her, with its
sloping meadows and fringes Of pines and
cottonwood, lay alone like summer island
in this frozen sea.
A sudden desire to view this phenomenon
moro closely, and to learn for herself the
limits of this new tethered life, completely
possessed her, and, accustomed to act upon
her independent impulses, she seizld hooded
waterproof cloak and slipped out Of tho house
unperceived. The rain was falling steadily
along the descending trail where she walked,
| N ,I,ae
the wintry distance began to confuse her
brain with the inextricable swarming of
snow Hurrying down with feversh excl e.
ment, she at last came in sight Of the arching
granite portals of their domain. But her first
glance through the gateway showed 10 closed
as if with a white portcullis. Kate remem
bered that the trail began to ascend beyond
the arch, and knew that what she saw wa.
only the mountain side she had partly climbed
this morning. But the snow had crept dowr
its flank, and the exit by trail was prac
tically closed Breathlessly making her way
back to tho highest part of the plateau--th,
cliff behind the house that here descended alb
ruptly to the rain-dimmed valley--sho gaget
ot the dizzy depths in vain for some undiscov
cred or forgotten trail along its face. But
single glance convinced her of It's inacces
sibility The gateway was indeed their onl,
outlet to the plain below. She looked bscl
at the falling snow beyond until she fancic,
she could sec in the crossing and recrossini
lines the moving meslles of a fateful wei
woven around them by viewless but mex
orable fingers.
Gro be Co atinucdA
Most metals and alloys shrink or con
tract on cooling. But an alloy whicI
: will expand on cooling may be made
lead nine parts, antimony two parts
. bismuth one part. This alloy can be ad
vantageoiisly used to fill small holes ant
defects in iron castings. Chicago News
No great man is great in his owl
, mind, but is great in the minds o
others.-Arkansaw Traveller.
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